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Elisabet Sahtouris updated new location at Honolulu, HI 96821, USA 4 years, 6 months ago
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Elisabet Sahtouris replied to the topic Is the universe a "living system"? in the forum Deep Time Journey Forum 9 years, 2 months ago
Thanks, Duane, Unless people see how assumptions define a science, Western science will continue to maintain its hegemony unless overthrown by a paradigm shift, and I’m not into that conquest model any more….especially as we so need the checks & balances there could be among sciences seeing each other as legit. I do not want to replace Western…[Read more]
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Elisabet Sahtouris replied to the topic Is the universe a "living system"? in the forum Deep Time Journey Forum 9 years, 2 months ago
I just wrote what ended up longer than intended as a comment in the Definitions Doc, and am wondering if it belongs more appropriately here? I would like all of us in this Living Universe group to see it and don’t know that we will all participate in Definitions. So here is the same post: I still believe it essential that we work on coming…[Read more]
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Elisabet Sahtouris commented on the doc Definitions in the group
Definitions 9 years, 2 months ago
I still believe it essential that we work on coming to some agreement about fundamental assumptions in science as the essential basis for our definitions work. In the two international symposia I co-convened on this topic, no one even suggested that science could be done without such assumptions– a basic set of statements conceptualizing the…[Read more]
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Definitions 9 years, 2 months ago
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Elisabet Sahtouris replied to the topic Is the universe a "living system"? in the forum Deep Time Journey Forum 9 years, 2 months ago
Pease note the impossibility of making a theory about a universe for which there is no conceptualization
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Elisabet Sahtouris replied to the topic Is the universe a "living system"? in the forum Deep Time Journey Forum 9 years, 2 months ago
Jon,You are quite right to see the list of assumptions as a model, a paradigm. That is exactly what fundamental assumptions comprise: the conceptualization of the universe and how to study it that is self-evident to the founders of a science.
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Elisabet Sahtouris replied to the topic Is the universe a "living system"? in the forum Deep Time Journey Forum 9 years, 2 months ago
Thanks, Ursula, for the prompt to continue. Note that in this continuing quote I suggest that assuming (conceptualizing) the universe as living is more plausible that assuming it to be non-living. I remind you all, that fundamental assumptions are by definition not provable, just plausible. Okay, I quote myself again: The fundamental…[Read more]
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Elisabet Sahtouris replied to the topic Is the universe a "living system"? in the forum Deep Time Journey Forum 9 years, 2 months ago
I have not yet weighed in on this dialogue for two reasons: 1) I am in a complex transition from living on the island of Mallorca in Spain to living on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, and 2) I did not want to get embroiled in an unwinnable war between the radicals and fundamentalists of science. However, I do see real value in the dialogues amo…[Read more]
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